Visit Paris off the beaten track: unusual tours and sights

Unusual sights in Paris and off the beaten path tours

Welcome to our city guide to Paris, France. Find things to do in Paris region, days out in Paris area, Paris attractions and sightseeing, what's on, Paris 2018 events (don't miss out the latest exhibitions), theatre, tours, restaurants and hotels. Plan your trip to Paris with useful traveller information and tips about places to go off the beaten track.

Paris St-Ouen Flea Market

Feel the magic of the 100 year-old greatest antique market. Enjoy the biggest antiques market in Europe with a long establish worlwide reputation. High-quality stands of many exquisite objects stretching for about a mile and a half of labyrinth alleys in the 16 individual varied markets awaits visitors in their hunts.

Stade de France behind the scenes visits

The Stade de France hosts large scale sports events, shows, and concerts. Backstage tours are also organized all year long. Discover the architecture and experience the famous entrance to the pitch to the edges of the lawn of the stadium in the footsteps of rugby, football champions or famous superstars...

Air and Space Museum

Enjoy one of the world's richest collections of flying machines that includes Concorde, Great War and WW2 planes. The Air and Space Museum, located in Paris Le Bourget airport, represents the ingenuity of mankind in the conquest of air and space and a milestone full of significance in the history of aviation.

Seine-Saint-Denis

More Paris Trip Ideas

Planning your Paris trip and want to discover the City of Light off the beaten path ? We have hundred of pages dedicated to travel and to cool, weird things to do. Whether you’re looking for unusual things to do in Paris such as events and attractions, key traveller information to make your Paris visit run smoothly or are planning where to stay in Paris, you will find plenty of tips and information on our website.

Cité du Cinéma - Luc Besson

Citroën Museum

The Citroën museum is located in Aulnay-sous-Bois, near Paris. Enjoy a guided visit to learn more about this mythical French car brand!

Greeters in North-East Paris

Keen to see the parts of Paris that other tourists can’t reach? Everyday, working Paris and its inhabitants? You can do so now with the help of the Greeters, because now, after New York, Toronto, Buenos Aires and other great cities, the Greeters are here in North-East Paris !

Welcome to North-East Paris

To round off your stay in Paris, get off the beaten track for a while and take time to visit a few places offering unusual attractions that are in many cases totally unknown to most visitors. Set out to discover the riches of Seine-Saint-Denis in North-Eastern Paris with its tourist treasures, its cultural heritage, its ancestral skills and more besides.

Business meetings

Agencies, event organizers, works council, Tour Operators… this site is for you! North-East Paris is here to provide precise and practical information to all those working in the tourism and event organizing industry (meeting and conference centers and incentive travel), also to the press and various businesses. North-East Paris groups together the different tourist attraction sites and business units in the department, in the north-eastern districts of Paris and in the area around Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle. Related : Trade fairs.

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Ideas for short breaks

Visits Tours & Encounters

Companies in Seine-Saint-Denis create, invent, innovate and apply a wide range of different skills. They open their doors to visitors during the Et voilà le travail! event, with tours of almost 100 premises concerned with industry, art and heritage, food processing, imaging, the media and the performing arts, graphic design, transport and logistics, the environment, health, research and more.

The Douce Banlieue programme of town trails is an opportunity not to be missed to see Seine-Saint-Denis as it really is, "hard-living and gentle-hearted", and discover its history, its buildings and the people who give it life.

Workshop with craftsmen and artists

On your weekends and leisure time in North-East Paris, experience and share in the work, the passions and the way of life of artists and artisans. From an introduction to modelling techniques to preparing and producing great chocolates or designing and adding personal touches to objects in wood, large numbers of professional tradesmen and designers offer courses throughout the year, showing you, in their places of work, their passion for what they do.